The dissertation Post-modernity ironies: Indigenous movements strategies of international litigation shows, drawing from the concept of conflict on Niklas Luhmann social theory, a case study on the protests of an indigenous tribe, from the beginning of the conflict, since its local origins, until the its internationalization, with the formation of nets of solidarity. The case under analysis refers to the Sarayaku People, in Ecuador, which have been resisting for almost 30 years against oil exploitation in its ancestral land and has been successful in taking its protest to the Inter-American System of Human Rights. The study highlights the strategic use of procedures and social mobilization (taking the form of protest movement) as mechanisms for the contention of the risks of a generalized and open conflict. Finally, the study intends to observe the effects of those mechanisms in relation to the original expectations of the Sarayaku People.